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2012

KGNU Morning Magazine.
Kopel debates former Colorado legislator Ken Gordon about
Amendment 65, which will be on Colorado's November ballot. The
Amendment would order Colorado's elected officials to
drastically limit spending on political speech. Kopel takes the
pro-First Amendment side of the issue. Sept. 19, 2012. 53
minutes.

Uncovering anti-Israel
Propaganda with Philippe Karsenty. French media critic and elected official
Philippe Karsenty joins Dave Kopel to discuss how one of the biggest
anti-semitic hoaxes of all time was uncovered. In 2004, Mr. Karsenty set in
motion a nearly decade long legal battle to blow the cover off a French TV
station's deliberate hoax involving footage of a dying boy named Muhammad
al-Durrah. The footage was shown on national TV and helped perpetuate
anti-Jewish and anti-American terrorism for years to come. Aug. 16, 2012. 31
minutes.

Kopel and Piers Morgan agree: Thursday would have been
the better day for a gun control debate. CNN. July 19, 2012.
Transcript. CNN Reliable Sources. Howard Kurtz bemoans "a troubling
thing that television does," namely the rush to "turn such
an atrocity into ideological fodder while the victims are
still being treated." As an example, plays Morgan/Kopel
interchange, with Morgan insisting a gun control debate must
take place on the night of the crime. July 22, 2012.
Transcript.
Video.

Did Heller matter? The New York Times says it did not,
but Kopel details the Times' numerous omissions.
Dave Kopel's Second Amendment Podcast. April 3, 2009.
MP3.

Gun Rights and the Constitution: Was Heller Insignificant?An examination of last week's New York Times article, which
overlooked most of the Second Amendment victories which have flowed
from Heller. The New Ledger. March 26, 2009.

2008

Opinion Pays its Own Way. Economic changes at newspaper may lead
to more "news" articles which are really opinion pieces that are
provided for free to the newspaper. The non-profit organization
ProPublica is showing how to do this. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Dec. 27, 2008.

Election chaos online. The Denver Post's online ballot
tool is imperfect, but much than that of the News. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Nov. 1, 2008.

Columnist has his own paranoid style. Rocky Mountain News columnist (and University of Colorado law professor) Paul Campos
used
the famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", by
historian Richard Hofstadter as the template for
a column criticizing Republicans. Kopel's column suggests
that--at least based on the evidence within Campos's column--"the
paranoid style" was more accurate as a description of Campos's own
approach. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Oct. 18, 2008.

CAIR's complaints about DVD hollow.
Fringe group not worth
notice media gives it. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Oct. 4, 2008. The media should not
have wasted space covering the Council on American-Islamic
Relations' bogus complaints about the movie Obsession, which
warns of the dangers of radical violent Islamists.

Full Picture of Obama Emerging. Rocky Mountain News.Aug.
27, 2008. What the media hasn't told you about the socialist,
racialist, Barack Obama Sr. Plus bogus claim from Time that older
Jewish voters who don't back Obama must be racist.

Privacy concerns at Post.
New database listing state employees
names and salaries is a bad idea. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. June 14, 2008.

Dailies shrug off Libertarian confab. The American
Spectator and The Colorado Independent provided the best
coverage of the Libertarian Party presidential nominating convention
in Denver. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. May 31, 2008.

Too often a crutch.Studies important enough to mention in a
story should be cited. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,Mar. 8,
2008. Analysis of Katy Human's flawed Denver Post article about
what "studies have shown" about subsidized health insurance for
children. And more general problems about use of "studies have shown"
without citation to the studies.

Relying too heavily on press releases.
Rocky failed to get the
other side of issue.Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Feb. 23,
2008. Miscoverage of the effect of man-made chemicals on human and
animal reproduction. Also, another falsehood from Maureen Dowd, and
Gannett's effort to take over the Colorado State University newspaper.

Polls have their place.
Though sometimes off-base, they add
spice to the political season. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,Feb.
9, 2008.

Columnist's howl replaces reason.
Virulent attack on Tancredo by
Paul Campos unsupported. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,Dec. 1, 2007.
Note: this article briefly and favorably mentions a column about the
Annapolis Conference; the author of that column was David Ignatius, not
David Sirota.

Photo illustrating story clouds issue. Brown cloud not the
result of CO2 emissions. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Oct.
20, 2007.
Plus more global warming coverage, the Coors-Miller merger, the
Udall-Schaffer race, and public opinion on the death penalty.

A plus and a minus in the Post.
Two stories about consequences of
immigration reform hit and miss. Also, Kopel laments the
continued shrinking of printed newspapers. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Aug. 11, 2007.

Case against flying not so airtight. Debunks the claim that
long-haul air travel produces more CO2 than driving the same distance in
a SUV. The column also criticizes newspapers which published
pre-publication reviews of the new Harry Potter book. Rocky Mountain News/Denver
Post, July 28, 2007.

Newshounds.us keeps tabs on Fox News.
Similar watchdogs good
idea for other networks. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, July 14, 2007. Plus, Colorado's most influential political blogs, and
the Post's non-correction of a ridiculous statement wrongly
attributed to Colin Powell.

Media reaching out.
And here are a few tips for how you can take
advantage of the trend. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, June 30, 2007.

Talk-show hosts amok.
If most parents aren't upset, why do
Caplis, Silverman carry on so?Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, June 2, 2007. Falsehoods and misinformation in the campaign against
Boulder High School by Bill O'Reilly and the Caplis & Silverman Show.

On the hustings. The good and the bad of Rocky's, Post's campaign
trail coverage. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,
May 19, 2007. Plus the lie that Timothy McVeigh was a Christian.

Why Reveal Who's Concealed?What possible motive could some
arrogant anti-gun newspapers have for publishing the names of
Right-to-Carry permit holders? America's 1st Freedom, May 2007.
by Paul Gallant, with David B. Kopel and Joanne D. Eisen.

Climate report too quickly embraced by journalists: Post
columnist, others strangely unskeptical. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Feb. 10, 2007. criticizes the press
for its overly credulous reporting of the latest output from the UN's
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The column also looks at media
coverage of a bill to mandate HPV vaccines for 6th grade girls; the
factoid that only 2% of rape accusations are false; and the lingering
influence of Michael Bellesiles on "The Mini Page."

Big changes mean a smaller Rocky.
City-side columnists see a major
shift in location. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Jan. 27, 2007. Plus columnist Bill
Johnson's libel of the Swift executives, and the unnoticed evidence that
the legislature's crackdown on illegal aliens is causing them to leave
Colorado.

Churchill report finds News on top. Web site had more extensive
coverage - and quicker - than its rival at the Post. Also, media bashing
of Colorado Springs and its elected officials and congressional candidates
because of their un-p.c. stands on some social issues. Plus chess and
poker coverage. Rocky Mountain News/Denver
Post, May 20, 2006.

So much left out of Saddam stories. Documents, videos potentially explosive, but News, Post coverage only minimal.
Plus, the lies of Mahmoud Abbas and Scott Ritter. Rocky Mountain News/Denver
Post, March 25, 2006.

Newsweek's bad streak hits home.
First the Quran debacle, then magazine's dubious elevation of a local high
school. Rocky
Mountain News/Denver Post, May 21,
2005. Plus an error-ridden article about the 1992 Amendment 2 anti-gay rights
ballot initiative. Israel's 57th year of independence is covered solely with a
biased A.P. story whitewashing the 1948 Arab war against Israel.

On Balance, Post has Less.
Recount of columnists tips the content scale to
News. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Mar. 26,
2005. Plus the FBI "terrorist" list and gun sale checks, and a misleading photo
of the olden days at the Rocky Mountain News.

Post less gullible in Baby 81 hoax. It carried only 2 stories to
the News' 9; AP reports rife with unsupported 'facts'.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,
Feb. 26, 2005.
Plus media non-coverage of U.N. sex abuse, and coverage of the Saudi high school
in Virginia that produced the man accused to trying to assassinate President
Bush.

Blogs unearth dubious sources. Theories
finger military for earthquake, illness, but who's behind these stories? Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Jan.
3, 2004. The junk scientist behind the hysteria over depleted uranium and other
falsehoods about the U.S. military.

2003

News columnist scores a coup. Report on
Baghdad anti-terrorism rally one more Iraq item ignored by others.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Dec. 20, 2003. Plus coverage of the trendy restaurant named for the genocidal
tyrant "Mao," bogus statistics about the homeless, and the new government in
Switzerland.

Sloppy advocacy journalism ID'd. Thinly
veiled support for identity-theft legislation takes form of story at Post.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Dec. 6, 2003. Plus, the disgraceful Associated Press
story whitewashing Paul Robeson's love of Stalin and hatred of America. And a
column by Bill Johnson giving a very incomplete account of a young man's
suicide.

It's not hard to spot the
fallacies In columns and news stories. City's dailies promulgate 'facts' that are anything but.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post. Nov. 22, 2003.
False claims that most of the people counted as "homeless" are
all living on the street; that the partial-birth abortion ban lacks an
exception for maternal life; and that most victims of war are women and
children. Plus the amazing errors of Supreme Court history in a recent column
by Steven and Cokie Roberts.

Religious matters get PC treatment. Dailies
go with the flow, but each knows which side its bread is buttered on.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, Aug. 2 , 2003.
The media's fawning treatment of three nuns in the Plowshares movement who were
recently sentenced to federal prison for vandalizing a defense facility. The
column also looks at coverage of the Catholic sex abuse scandals, and at
coverage of St. Juan Diego, the Mexican Indian who saw the
Virgin of Guadelupe in
1531.

Distortions mar Bighorn stories. Culturally biased coverage of the new
Indian monument at Little Bighorn. Plus factoids about war deaths, and bogus
claim that Colorado death penalty is racist. Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, July 5, 2003.

Two points about WMDs neglected .
Did Clinton and those who authorized Resolution 1441 lie
about Saddam, too?
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,
June 21, 2003.
Plus a look at Swiss
and French newspapers.

Gray Gun Stories.
The New York Times' dishonest and mean-spirited coverage of the gun
issue. National
Review Online. June 9, 2003. With Paul Blackman.

Dowd's elision elicits
derision. When she twisted quote by
president, New York Times columnist went too far.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post, May 24, 2003. Plus the lack of diversity at the New York Times,
second-hand smoke, and "lynching" in South Carolina.

'Peace activist' or 'war activist'?Media
should take greater care in their labeling of participants in conflicts.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,
April 12, 2003. Also examines the Pearl Jam
controversy, and the racist attack on Don Mares.

Other side of the equation missing. Some
recent science-related stories have fallen short when it comes to balance.
Rocky Mountain News/Denver Post,
January 19, 2003.
Discusses global warming, polar glaciers, Clean Water Act, Bush tax cuts, sex
abuse of nuns.

West
Wing Finance. Does West Wing count as a contribution to the Democratic Party under McCain-Feingold? The
answer takes us back to Theodore Roosevelt's corrupt election campaign of 1904. National
Review Online. Apr. 10, 2001.

Polls: Anti-gun Propaganda.
Certain pollsters who support repressive gun laws claim to have found
increased public support for such laws. Are such polls accurate? Or are they typical of
the manipulation of data which has long been the practice of pro-control
pollsters?
The American Guardian.

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